He just joined Twitter, but President Barack Obama is proving quite popular.
His account @POTUS gained over a million followers in under five hours, giving him the world record for the most Twitter followers in the shortest time period, according to Guinness World Records.
https://twitter.com/gov/status/600695857516785664
He’s only tweeted four times since Monday, but he’s already logged 2.28 million followers as of this writing. His most recent tweet below:
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/601082858497830913
As Guinness points out, @BarackObama has nearly 60 million followers. The @POTUS account is “associated with the presidential office — or as Obama puts it: ‘The handle comes with the house,’ ” in answer to former POTUS Bill Clinton’s Twitter query below:
https://twitter.com/billclinton/status/600389785769881600
The former record holder for the most followers gained in the shortest time period was none other than Iron Man himself, Robert Downey Jr. In April 2014, he reached a million followers in a little over 23 hours.
Twitter actually released a diagram showing how quickly the world reacted to @POTUS, and opting in to follow Obama here.
https://twitter.com/gov/status/600408163779772418